Visit me at Tucson Festival of Books

February 6, 2023
I'm so excited to let you know that I've been selected as one of the writers who will have a table in the Indie Author Pavilion at the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books. This nationally prestigious book festival supports local literacy programs, and I'm so excited to be involved. I'll…

Writers Studio: Visiting Author

February 28, 2022
Starting today I'll be at Lakeland University to work with student writers enrolled in Lakeland's BFA program. To culminate the event, I'll be reading along with the students on Thursday, March 3 at 7 p.m.

Judging Fiction

February 24, 2022
This week I was honored to read the top fiction submissions to Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, a student-run publication at Wichita State University. My counterpart for poetry is renown poet A.E. Stallings, well known for her classical themes and formal poetry. It wasn't easy to choose the three best, but I…

“You can write, traveling?”

March 24, 2021
I recently sent a poem I wrote while in Tucson (our first year as snowbirds) to a dear friend and mentor. I told him I had a collection of Tucson poems going. As a world traveler himself, as well as an esteemed poet, he said, "You can write, traveling?" My…